Originally Posted by
oldcarpilot
Historically at ASA this is not the case. Can you trade a 4 day for a 2 day at XJT?
Yes, if fact you can trade two 4 days for a single 4 day dropping an entire 4 day trip. You can trade two 4 days for a ONE day trip dropping 7 days off your schedule. Or any combination thereof. As long as you don't go below the "trading floor" (usually 60 hours) it will let drop whatever as long as the coverage is there. Even that can be fixable with a simple advertisement. The LIW's are highly fluid/dynamic. Just because it wouldn't execute on the first try, keep trying as when guys pick stuff up if drives the reserve coverage back up.
Originally Posted by
JustAnotherPLT
I think once you look at it more you'll see it's a nice way to bid. You can fear what management is going to do all you want, at least with this you control the month not them.
I think if you dealt with XJT's system, you'd see it's a nice way bid/control/manipulate as well. I''ll say it again, the ASA PBS system SEEMS to be pretty good, especially compared to what you guys had. But remember, everything is relative. Because we have a lot of control as well, NOT them. We don't have to "fear" management at all. We can say "alright, you wanna had me a crap sandwich? I'll EASILY fix that in the LIW's"